Guilty Pleas in 1970s Murders

By

Sean Gardiner

Dec. 14, 2012 10:42 p.m. ET

A convicted serial killer already on California's death row pleaded guilty Friday to killing two young women in New York City in the 1970s.

Rodney Alcala, 69 years old, admitted in Manhattan Supreme Court that he raped and strangled Cornelia Crilley, a 23-year-old TWA flight attendant, in 1971, and six years later also murdered Ellen Hover, also...